There’s a one-legged man in there… 😯💀
Check out Lance Hendrick’s 30 min milk steaming tutorial on Youtube, followed by his 30 min tutorial on latte art basics. I find his instructional methods easy to follow and implement with relatively quick and good results.
Thanks a bunch for your detailed advice!
Speaking of manufacturers, apparently the Barista Touch Impress keeps an internal log of all drinks and maintenance activities performed on the machine. I also read on Breville’s website (or manual/warranty registration page?) that this log could be used by Breville to determine warranty eligibility. In other words, if the machine asks you to do maintenance and you keep postponing it, they may refuse to cover warranty service in the future… kinda ominous, if ya ask me… on the one hand I get it: why should someone that straight up neglected/abused their machine be offered the same warranty coverage as someone who always maintained their machine well, but on the other hand, this is some ominous big brother stuff… 😯
Thanks for the comprehensive response! Much appreciated!
Looks like I’m overthinking it…
I’ve been using the self-hosted open source version for just over a year now for personal use (friends and family). I’m pretty happy with it.
Has anyone tried the commercial version with the web interface?
Actually grub 0.x series had much more useful rescue shell tab completion than the latest release. You could easily list all boot devices, partitions, and even filesystems and their contents. All from the rescue shell. Consequently, you could boot into Linux and reinstall grub in the MBR to fix it. All that without using a boot CD/USB! Good luck doing that with the latest version of grub and UEFI.
Also getting into the BIOS on legacy firmware was also very simple. On most machines it’s the three finger salute followed by either F1, Delete or rarely F11 or F12.
The boot process was simple, and the BIOS had just one simple task: load and execute the first 512 bytes of the disk that was designated as the boot device. That’s it.
Ah yes, simplicity. MBR, with all its limitations had one killer feature: it was extremely simple.
UEFI, as powerful as it is, is the opposite of simple. Many moving parts, so many potential failure points. Unfortunately, it seems like modern software is just that: more complex and prone to failure.
Cocaine is expensive…
You should see/try socialist/communist toilet paper. Not only is it thin like this, it will also no-so-gently exfoliate your anus.
Source: Cuban resorts and lived experience in the former Soviet Union during the 80’s and early 90’s.
Noice!! 👍 Thanks for the tip!
Something that calls itself… yeah, no thanks. :)
Beaut! You’re on your way to greatness! 👍